Scrum Master - Agile Lead
Scrum Master - Agile Lead
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22-04-2025
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22-04-2025
Job Description
Scrum Master/Agile Lead
Role Description and Duties:
As scrum master / agile lead you will play a pivotal role in facilitating and guiding the various Engineering teams through the daily processes and ceremonies.
Youll leverage your expertise in team sprint capacity planning priority and issue management issue triaging analysis and testing to increase productivity within the team.
This role requires a proactive individual who can collaborate with crossfunctional teams and ensure forward momentum and growth continues within the team while ensuring our platform remains robust secure and userfriendly.
Manage the prioritised backlog into the teams (Engineering QA Data DevOps and Security).
Manage tracking and oversight of deliverables for the scrum teams they are responsible for.
Coach team members on Agile practices and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Manage scrum ceremonies: sprint planning daily standups sprint reviews and retrospectives.
Manage quarterly burndowns for teams (responsible for) on completion of work.
Collaboration with stakeholders (Product Owner Director of Dev QA Manager)
Plan work into the teams for various sprints.
Defending the team collating information to support the defence.
Analyzing data to find areas of improvement in the process.
Removing blockages from the team Manage the removal of impediments that block the teams progress.
Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure a well scoped and defined backlog exists that is representative of the road map 150 metric).
Track and communicate team performance metrics (e.g. velocity) and hours logged.
Encourage collaboration transparency and accountability within the team.
Quality assurance testing of various feature enhancements.
BA / analyst work if capacity allows.
Assist with support processes via Slack channel communications as well as GitLab leading through into team sprint priority.
Minimum Requirements:
Qualifications & Experience:
Bachelors degree in Commerce or Project Management (or equivalent experience) is advantageous.
Agile certification Certified Scrum Master Project or Programme Management certification is preferred
Preferred qualifications
Experience integrating with ERP systems (e.g. SAP Oracle NetSuite QuickBooks).
Familiarity with microservices architecture and eventdriven design.
Contributions to opensource Ruby on Rails projects or a strong GitHub portfolio.
Certifications in AWS Ruby or related technologies.
Prior work in inventory management logistics or a related field.
General Linux proficiency
Experience:
5 years experience in Agile methodologies within a software development environment.
Proven track record within a SaaS or dataintensive product.
Experience working with a fully remote distributed team is advantageous.
Experience working with GitLab Heap Analytics Asana and Intercom is advantageous.
Domain knowledge:
Experience with agile methodologies and frameworks and their practice.
Understanding of inventory management supply chain or ERP systems is a strong plus.
Soft skills:
Excellent problemsolving and analytical skills.
Strong communication skills for remote collaboration across time zones.
Understand the value of team metrics and keep track of them to drive team performance.
Ability to lead by example mentor others and thrive in a fastpaced Agile environment.
Ability to deliver on deadlines and self manage.
Works well under pressure.
Personal qualities
Fluent in English
Self motivated
Circumstances
Collaborative inclusive team culture with regular virtual meetups.
Flexibility to travel within South Africa from timetotime for team or company gettogethers.
The company will provide the hardware necessary to perform this role (including UPS power).
As this is a remote role youll need access to stable secure highspeed fixedline internet connectivity (The company provides a subsidy towards internet subscription costs).
As scrum master / agile lead you will play a pivotal role in facilitating and guiding the various Engineering teams through the daily processes and ceremonies.
Youll leverage your expertise in team sprint capacity planning priority and issue management issue triaging analysis and testing to increase productivity within the team.
This role requires a proactive individual who can collaborate with crossfunctional teams and ensure forward momentum and growth continues within the team while ensuring our platform remains robust secure and userfriendly.
Manage the prioritised backlog into the teams (Engineering QA Data DevOps and Security).
Manage tracking and oversight of deliverables for the scrum teams they are responsible for.
Coach team members on Agile practices and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Manage scrum ceremonies: sprint planning daily standups sprint reviews and retrospectives.
Manage quarterly burndowns for teams (responsible for) on completion of work.
Collaboration with stakeholders (Product Owner Director of Dev QA Manager)
Plan work into the teams for various sprints.
Defending the team collating information to support the defence.
Analyzing data to find areas of improvement in the process.
Removing blockages from the team Manage the removal of impediments that block the teams progress.
Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure a well scoped and defined backlog exists that is representative of the road map 150 metric).
Track and communicate team performance metrics (e.g. velocity) and hours logged.
Encourage collaboration transparency and accountability within the team.
Quality assurance testing of various feature enhancements.
BA / analyst work if capacity allows.
Assist with support processes via Slack channel communications as well as GitLab leading through into team sprint priority.
Minimum Requirements:
Qualifications & Experience:
Bachelors degree in Commerce or Project Management (or equivalent experience) is advantageous.
Agile certification Certified Scrum Master Project or Programme Management certification is preferred
Preferred qualifications
Experience integrating with ERP systems (e.g. SAP Oracle NetSuite QuickBooks).
Familiarity with microservices architecture and eventdriven design.
Contributions to opensource Ruby on Rails projects or a strong GitHub portfolio.
Certifications in AWS Ruby or related technologies.
Prior work in inventory management logistics or a related field.
General Linux proficiency
Experience:
5 years experience in Agile methodologies within a software development environment.
Proven track record within a SaaS or dataintensive product.
Experience working with a fully remote distributed team is advantageous.
Experience working with GitLab Heap Analytics Asana and Intercom is advantageous.
Domain knowledge:
Experience with agile methodologies and frameworks and their practice.
Understanding of inventory management supply chain or ERP systems is a strong plus.
Soft skills:
Excellent problemsolving and analytical skills.
Strong communication skills for remote collaboration across time zones.
Understand the value of team metrics and keep track of them to drive team performance.
Ability to lead by example mentor others and thrive in a fastpaced Agile environment.
Ability to deliver on deadlines and self manage.
Works well under pressure.
Personal qualities
Fluent in English
Self motivated
Circumstances
Collaborative inclusive team culture with regular virtual meetups.
Flexibility to travel within South Africa from timetotime for team or company gettogethers.
The company will provide the hardware necessary to perform this role (including UPS power).
As this is a remote role youll need access to stable secure highspeed fixedline internet connectivity (The company provides a subsidy towards internet subscription costs).
Employment Type
Full-Time
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